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The subject of my work, Myra Kalman says, is the normal daily things that people fall in love with.

She is a visual storyteller, and to be in conversation with her is a little like wandering into one of the cartoons you might see in the New Yorker, and which she might have drawn.

Millions of us have been prompted to smile and think by Myra Kalman's work in a museum or the recent illustrated revision of Strunk and Wights Elements of Style,

or a New York Times block, or her lovely books and her drawings about dogs.

Her words and pictures bring life's whimsy and quirkiness into relief right alongside life's intrinsic seriousness.

It's most curious truths.

The way that we move through space is really interesting to me, and I am conscious of the fact that we are moving and dancing in our way all day long.

It's funny because Nietzsche said that a day that doesn't have dance in it is a lost day, which you wouldn't expect from something like Nietzsche, who is crazy.

And intense.

And intense in the head, such a giant mustache as I write about.

But the fact is that we really are all moving and dancing all day long, and the older you get, the more dangerous it is, and you can trip.

I tripped on the sidewalk and broke my arm, and I thought, well, how did this happen? This is absurd.

So my heart goes out to everybody. That's it. My heart goes out to everybody.

I'm Krista Tippett, and this is on Beeing.

My Rikailman is the author and illustrator of over 20 books for adults and children.

She's well known for her New York Times blogs that have become books like The Principles of Uncertainty.

She grew up in the Bronx, and now lives in Manhattan. We spoke in 2017.

You were born in Israel. Sounds like a new, but you came to New York at the age of four.

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